Kanye West apologizes to Jewish community with Instagram post in Hebrew – saying he ‘deeply regrets the pain’ he caused after praising Hitler and series of anti-Semitic outbursts
Kanye West has finally apologized for his several anti-Semitic outbursts, which even saw him voice support for Adolf Hitler and led to him losing a series of lucrative endorsement deals and being dropped by his talent agency.
West, 46, apologized in Hebrew on his newly reactivated Instagram page in the early hours of December 26.
“I sincerely apologize to the Jewish community for any unintentional outburst caused by my words or actions. “It was not my intention to offend or humiliate, and I deeply regret any pain I may have caused,” the apology read in part.
‘I am determined to start with myself and learn from this experience to ensure greater sensitivity and understanding in the future. Your forgiveness is important to me, and I am committed to making amends and promoting unity.”
Many in the comments, writing in Hebrew, seemed to accept the apology. However, one commenter warned, “Be careful the next time we don’t accept forgiveness.”
Kanye West, 46, has finally apologized for his several anti-Semitic outbursts that started in 2022 and continued until a few weeks ago
I sincerely apologize to the Jewish community for any unintentional outburst caused by my words or actions. “It was not my intention to offend or humiliate, and I deeply regret any pain I may have caused,” the apology read in part.
West’s recent return to social media has already sparked controversy when he revealed he had appointed controversial Russian designer Gosha Rubchinskiy as head of design for the Yeezy brand.
Several men have come forward accusing Rubchinskiy of pressuring young men to send him explicit photos of themselves. The Moscow-born designer has denied the allegations
Hours before West’s apology, Israeli MMA fighter Haim Gozali claimed he was responsible for putting the Golddigger rapper’s name on an IDF rocket headed for Gaza.
Gozali, who previously served in the Israeli army, posted a photo to X on Sunday showing the words “Kanye West Flying to Gaza Haim Gozali” on an apparent rocket.
Gozali, 50, captioned the post: “@kanyewest you don’t love us as Jews. So we don’t like you either!!!’
It is not clear whether Gozali actually wrote the message himself.
He previously posted a similar photo with the names of Khabib Nurmagomedov, Islam Makhachev, Khamzat Chimaev and Belal Muhammad written on an IDF missile.
These four fighters are all Muslim and have expressed their support for Palestine.
Haim Gozali posted this photo on X with Kanye West’s name written on a rocket
Kanye West is increasingly under scrutiny for his anti-Semitic rhetoric
This month, West was accused of going on another anti-Semitic tirade at an event in Las Vegas, in addition to using similar language in his latest song, Vultures.
West told a crowd claiming that “all the rich motherfuckers” in the room have their kids in “Zionist schools” and that daughter North, 10, had destroyed couches in her house so she could join him on tour.
In a video obtained by TMZ, West falsely claims, “We are 60 million people in America, and 60 million Jews in the world.
’50 percent of our deaths are abortions, 25 percent of us go to prison… raise your hand if you’ve ever had an abortion
“If we were in a Jewish family… every mother would raise their hand.”
‘Who will make the hospitals? He’s a Zionist, Trump. This is what I was trying to tell you. Jesus Christ, Hitler, you third party, sponsor that!’
He added, “They can’t touch me because God covers me.”
Jewish organizations recently lambasted Kanye for his new song “Vultures,” which features the lyrics “How am I anti-Semitic?” I just fucked a Jewish motherfucker.”
Yelling at the crowd to ‘shut up’, he said: ‘I don’t care about life or death, I’m being visited by my children’ before adding: ‘F*** Balenciaga’.
West also slammed the school his children attended, saying, “North tore up the mother couches in the house” to join her father on his trip.
Just days before that unhinged tirade, West was branded a “disgusting human being” by some fans after wearing a KKK-style hood in Miami.
The artist donned a cloth head covering with a point at the top during a late-night listening event with collaborator Ty Dolla Sign as they performed their controversial song Vultures, which features vile lyrics about a Jewish woman.
Vultures contains the ‘offensive’ text: ‘How am I anti-Semitic? I just fucked a Jewish motherfucker.”
In 2022, West made anti-Semitic comments in interviews and on social media, including an October Twitter post in which he said he would soon go “death con 3 on JEWISH PEOPLE,” an apparent reference to the U.S. defense readiness scale known as DEFCON. .
He had previously suggested slavery was a choice, calling the COVID-19 vaccine the “mark of the beast,” among other things.
He was also criticized for wearing a ‘White Lives Matter’ T-shirt at Paris Fashion Week and featuring models in the same design. In 2020, Ye’s then-wife Kim Kardashian said the rapper has bipolar disorder, a mental illness that causes extreme mood swings.
West expressed some regret in a podcast interview, but a few months later tweeted an image of a swastika merged with the Star of David, causing the platform to suspend him.
After receiving the same treatment on other social media, Ye offered to buy Parler, a conservative social network without a gatekeeper. No deal was ever reached.
The split with West left Adidas with a huge inventory of unsold Yeezy sneakers that it began selling in limited batches. Two such sales have been held: one in May and the other last month.
For both sales, Adidas said it donated a portion of the proceeds to charities such as the Anti-Defamation League and the Philonise & Keeta Floyd Institute for Social Change.
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